31-year-old Megan Marie Hayes and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Brandon Quincy Thompson, have both pleaded guilty to their parts in running a child prostitution ring in Tea, South Dakota on the pages of the Village Voice Media-owned backpage.com.

Hayes is only looking at 5 years but Thompson is looking at 15 to life. Again I’d be surprised if Thompson’s sentence was closer to 15 than life. It seems that federal prosecutors are more concerned about making deals than doing anything real to stop child prostitution.